The patch titled Subject: ocfs2: remove redundant assignment to variable free_space has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is ocfs2-remove-redundant-assignment-to-variable-free_space.patch This patch should soon appear at https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/ocfs2-remove-redundant-assignment-to-variable-free_space.patch and later at https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/ocfs2-remove-redundant-assignment-to-variable-free_space.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Colin Ian King <colin.i.king@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: ocfs2: remove redundant assignment to variable free_space Variable free_space is being initialized with a value that is not read, it is being re-assigned later in the two paths of an if statement. The early initialization is redundant and can be removed. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220112230411.1090761-1-colin.i.king@xxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.i.king@xxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Joseph Qi <joseph.qi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Mark Fasheh <mark@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Junxiao Bi <junxiao.bi@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Changwei Ge <gechangwei@xxxxxxx> Cc: Gang He <ghe@xxxxxxxx> Cc: Jun Piao <piaojun@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ocfs2/dir.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/fs/ocfs2/dir.c~ocfs2-remove-redundant-assignment-to-variable-free_space +++ a/fs/ocfs2/dir.c @@ -3343,7 +3343,7 @@ static int ocfs2_find_dir_space_id(struc struct ocfs2_dir_entry *de, *last_de = NULL; char *de_buf, *limit; unsigned long offset = 0; - unsigned int rec_len, new_rec_len, free_space = dir->i_sb->s_blocksize; + unsigned int rec_len, new_rec_len, free_space; /* * This calculates how many free bytes we'd have in block zero, should _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from colin.i.king@xxxxxxxxx are ocfs2-remove-redundant-assignment-to-pointer-root_bh.patch ocfs2-remove-redundant-assignment-to-variable-free_space.patch mm-migrate-remove-redundant-variables-used-in-a-for-loop.patch nilfs2-remove-redundant-pointer-sbufs.patch lib-remove-redundant-assignment-to-variable-ret.patch kernel-sysctlc-remove-unused-variable-ten_thousand.patch